The 2024 Eureka Poker Tour Prague €1,100 no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion was a historic one because it attracted the biggest subject within the historical past of the tour with an enormous 4,732 entries, which elevated final 12 months’s subject of 4,403 by over 300 gamers. That humongous turnout on the Hilton Hotel Prague created a prize pool of $4,793,024, with the highest 707 gamers getting paid.
The monumental occasion produced an eventful event that may finally finish with Martin Tsvetanov popping out because the conqueror of the sphere to win the $475,976 prime prize after he overcame Gerald Karlic heads up for his first main poker title.
Tsvetanov Wins
Tsvetanov is from Bulgaria and primarily a money sport participant along with his profession earnings equalling $134,061 previous to this win, that means that this victory betters his whole profession earnings 4 occasions over. This win will transfer him into the highest 50 on the Bulgaria all time profession earnings record for a rustic that has a formidable record of gamers for his or her measurement.
The Bulgarian was twenty fifth in chips of 137 gamers coming into Day 3, which might be an incredible day for him as he ended the day because the chip chief with 14 gamers remaining. But whereas he entered the ultimate day because the chip chief, he wouldn’t simply simply cruise to victory as he was really the brief stack when it bought to three-handed play.
But some key palms allowed him to beat Ricardo Caridade of Portugal, who would end in third place and finally the way more heralded Gerald Karlic of Austria who he would defeat heads up after a deal was made. Tsvetanov had a slight chip lead heads up in opposition to the Austrian, who has practically $2 million in profession earnings. The two gamers selected a deal that significantly evened out the payouts, leaving the 2 gamers left to play for $20,176 and the spadie trophy.
When Tsvetanov closed out the win, he additionally secured 1,320 Card Player Player of the Year factors. This was his first POY-qualified rating of 2024.
Final Day
The last day of the mega subject had simply 14 gamers when it started. Tsvetanov had the chip lead as gamers fell by the wayside one after the other at a gradual tempo till the ultimate desk was reached.
The last desk included gamers from seven completely different nationalities: Bulgaria, Austria, Portugal, United Kingdom, Greece, Malta and Denmark with two every from Greece and the UK.
Arguably the most important identify on the last desk was Jack Sinclair, who has a World Series of Poker predominant occasion last desk end and a victory within the WSOP Europe predominant occasion on his illustrious poker profession resume. But he wouldn’t have the ability to get something going on the last desk as he would bow out in eighth place for $66,738 after he was taken out by Caridade.
Tsvetanov and Karlic have been those to eradicate the sphere for the remainder of the best way as they constructed in the direction of the inevitable heads up conflict with the lone exception to this being when Ryan Plant eradicated one of many two Greeks by taking out Theodoros Ampelikiotis in fifth place. But Plant himself would quickly hit the rail in fourth after that when Tsvetanov ushered him out the door.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Martin Tsvetanov | $475,976 | 1320 |
| 2 | Gerald Karlic | $419,851 | 1100 |
| 3 | Ricardo Caridade | $247,892 | 880 |
| 4 | Ryan Plant | $190,683 | 660 |
| 5 | Theodoros Ampelikiotis | $146,672 | 550 |
| 6 | Matthew Micaleff | $112,826 | 440 |
| 7 | Alexantr Spatharis | $86,772 | 330 |
| 8 | Jack Sinclair | $66,738 | 220 |
| 9 | Mikkel Nielsen | $51,336 | 110 |
The remainder of EPT Prague continues to be to return with a number of occasions left on the schedule which ought to collect large fields and provides out much more enormous prizes in what will probably be an especially thrilling week of poker on the Hilton Prague.
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